Browsing Supply Chain Management by Subject "Transportation"
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The Impact of Special Events on the Freight Spot Market
(2019)The United States freight spot market moves in patterns consistent with general economic fluctuations within the broader macro-economy. While the spot market does follow general trends, there is an underlying belief that ... -
Improving Delivery Performance Through Predicted Transit Times
(2022-06-10)Maintaining high on-time delivery performance is critical for third-party logistics providers. Not only does reliable on-time delivery function as a competitive edge and allow logistics providers to serve their customers ... -
Incentivizing No-Rush Delivery in Omnichannel Retail
(2019)E-commerce sales have grown exponentially since the introduction of the smart phone in 2007 and the trend is expected to continue. As retailers enter e-commerce, the pressure to provide more and faster delivery options ... -
Increasing Fleet Utilization Through a Heuristic to Determine Optimal Backhaul Routes
(2019)As transportation costs rise, companies need to become more efficient to remain profitable. One way to increase efficiency in transportation is to increase fleet utilization through the addition of backhaul routes. Most ... -
Innovative Consolidation Techniques for Improved Transportation Efficiency
(2021-06-16)Many trucks in the US travel well below permitted cube and volume utilization, so consolidating two or more shipments onto a single multi-stop truckload (MSTL) route can increase truck utilization and decrease transportation ... -
Last-Mile Distribution Network Optimization in Emerging Markets: A Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil
(2019)As more of the world’s population moves to cities, urban logistics becomes increasingly important to a company’s distribution operations. Urban distribution network studies must address the same strategic questions as ... -
Managing Disruptions: Understanding Shipper Routing Guide Performance
(2022-06-10)Shippers utilize routing guides to tender shipments to carriers at contracted rates. They also tender loads on the spot market, where they compete with other shippers for carrier capacity and market pricing. Although ... -
Network Design for Two-Day E-Commerce Fulfillment
(2021-06-16)With the fast growth of e-commerce, online shoppers are becoming accustomed to free and fast delivery. Small and medium-sized businesses are experiencing rising transportation costs as they are having to switch from slower ... -
Network Optimization: International Inbound Logistics
(2021-06-16)Optimizing the flow of goods across the globe is incentivized by logistics savings, amplified by an enterprise’s economies of scale. Waters’ international shipments are majorly carried out via air freight and are exclusively ... -
Optimizing Fleet Utilization by Adjusting Customer Delivery Appointment Times
(2020-07-24)The supply of trucks and drivers is struggling to keep up with the increasing and volatile demand for ground transportation. As a result, for companies like Niagara Bottling LLC., supply chain managers are pressured to ... -
Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal
(2021-06-16)Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ... -
Power Influence in Horizontal Collaboration Relationships
(2021-06-16)Supply chain horizontal collaboration has captured the attention of many researchers and practitioners. Horizontal collaboration offers multiple benefits in creating competitive advantages for companies and leveraging their ... -
Predicting and Planning for the Future: North American Truckload Transportation
(2020-07-21)The trucking industry is crucial to the United States economy. An overwhelming majority of goods transported across the US are moved in trucks. For most companies, truck transportation is a prominent component that impacts ... -
Predicting Shipping Time with Machine Learning
(2019)With the globalization of trade, transit time reliability has become a critical point in the shipping industry as irregularities will lead to more delays further down the supply chain. Our sponsoring company, A.P. Møller ... -
Root Cause Analysis and Impact of Unplanned Procurement on Truckload Transportation Costs
(2019)The tender rejection rate by primary carriers for the TMC division of CH Robinson nearly doubled from 2015-16 to 2017-18. An increase in tender rejection rates directly results in an increase in transportation costs for ... -
A Shipment Difficulty Model for Third-Party Logistics Resource Allocation
(2022-06-10)The market for obtaining truckload capacity is becoming more dynamic as demand for truckload freight capacity in the US increases. Freight brokers form a vital connection between shippers and the hundreds of thousands of ... -
Should Shippers Be Afraid of Ghost Freight? An Empirical Analysis of a Customer Portfolio from TMC, a Div. of C.H. Robinson
(2021-06-16)Over the past several years, there has been severe market volatility in the truckload industry leading to cost increases and efficiency losses for shippers and carriers. Previous research has investigated the many factors ... -
Simulation Test Bed for Drone-Supported Logistics Systems
(2019)Same-day delivery is an increasingly relevant logistics service because of a continued boom in e- commerce. As customer orders are submitted dynamically during the day, companies need to dispatch vehicles from distribution ... -
A Strategic Tool for Finding Optimal Last Mile Fleet Size & Fleet Composition, using Knapsack, Bin Packing, and Aggregate Planning
(2022-06-10)As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ecommerce share of retail has grown at an accelerated rate, increasing the number of home deliveries and delivery speed expectation from customers. Moreover, demand variability ... -
Supply Chain Coopetition: A Simulation Model to Explore Competitive Advantages in Logistics
(2020-07-24)Supply chains continuously face pressure to increase efficiency and differentiation to support business continuity. A not yet fully explored way to face this challenge is coopetition, where two competitor companies decide ...